Mother of Paris attack victim to take legal action against Belgium

The mother of a man killed in November’s terrorist attacks in Paris plans to take legal action against Belgium for failing to apprehend the terrorists before the attacks that killed 130 people.

Nathalie Ribert-Reinhart, whose son Valentin was killed at the Bataclan concert hall, told French broadcaster BFMTV that she took the decision after learning of links between one of those thought to be involved in the Paris attacks and Ayoub el-Khazani, who was prevented from massacring passengers on a high-speed train between Brussels and Paris in August.

“Excuse me, but couldn’t we have stopped them before?” she asked, highlighting the arrests that have been made since as proof of the authorities’ capabilities.

“I am going to ask, with our lawyer, to bring action against Belgium, because it’s called inaction. Behind the inaction: decimated families, children that won’t be born, children that won’t see their parents grow old.”

“Everyone now knows the name of this commune, Molenbeek … What did the Belgian state do before?” Ribert-Reinhart said, referring to the Brussels neighborhood notorious for radicalization, where some of the Paris attackers lived.

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Molenbeek … Brussels … Belgium … Mr Verhofstadts country. Maybe the bigmouth and very loud Verhoftsadt should be pushed against the wall in this matter. Somebody should be kept responsible for this as the radicalization of Molenbeek has been going on for decades and the politicians only looked at it, without doing anything.